US Senator Has No Regrets Over Calling Elon Musk An ‘A**gap’ | EUROtoday

Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) on Wednesday defended her blunt message to Elon Musk final month, when she declared that “he’s just a dick” and made the “ultimate dick boss move.”

Smith made the feedback on Musk’s X platform, calling him a “billionaire asshole” boss over his insistence that federal staff ship an e mail about what they’d executed within the final week. On Wednesday, she was requested about her posts by CNN’s Brianna Keilar, who famous that Democratic voters need “more” from her social gathering and need the social gathering to oppose President Donald Trump “in a more fulsome way.”

“So, I mean, I ask you this sincerely, like, what’s the value in that kind of language and communication? Is that the best way to communicate the stakes of the moment that the country’s in?” Keilar requested.

Smith swiftly replied, “Well, what I’m hearing from voters at home and what I heard on your show is that people want to see some fight.”

“They want to see some urgency in this moment that we’re in and they, I think with that tweet that I did, it touched a nerve with millions of people,” she continued.

In her posts on X about Musk, Smith wrote that she bets “a lot of people have had an experience like this with a bad boss.”

On CNN on Wednesday, Keilar, enjoying satan’s advocate, requested if there was a method for the senator to mirror her constituents’ outrage with out “the limited vocabulary of curse words.”

Smith continued to defend her language within the posts, “I know that my constituents, sometimes they swear, sometimes they don’t swear.”

“What matters is that people feel like you’re actually expressing what you really think, that you’re not sugarcoating it, as my mother used to say — who also had a tendency to swear a fair amount, let me just be honest with you.”